News and gossip Jan-Mar 1995

Climate conference

29/3/95: a report on the BBC on the climate summit singled out for
mention possible consequences for Egypt of Global Warming. Production
of rice and grain could drop between 10 and 20 % if carbon dioxide
emissions continue to increase. This could be very serious given that
Egypt already has to import a lot of food.

Antiquities thefts

UK media carried reports over the weekend of 11-12 March about arrests
relating to theft handling of stolen Egyptian Antiquities. Click here for a Reuter article.

Other media in late March carried stories about a possible haul of
antiquities at Cairo Airport. Click here.

Abdel-Aziz Sadek

Abdel-Aziz Sadek, known to Egyptologists as Azouz, died a few days ago
in Cairo. He will be sorely missed.

Tomb of Alexander the Great at Siwa ?

This intriguing story has been around since at least 30/1/95. I have
given it its own page: click here
to see it and the latest news I have.

Maximianon/el Zerqa

soc.culture.egyptian

An formal Egyptian newsgroup has been created by in the soc hierarchy.
It will of course be read by scholars and (particularly) non-scholars
alike. If your WWW software is correctly configured (and you have news
access of course), clicking here should get you the
newsgroup. Contact your local system manager if this doesn't work.

New cemetery at Giza

09/02/95: A Reuter story about this appeared today, indicating that
this discovery will play havoc with the Cairo ring road. Click here to see it.